Category: British Politics Facts and Figures

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leeds West

CANDIDATE : Pannell

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. T. C. Pannell is 46 and has had nearly 30 years’ service in the Labour movement as a member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. He was a member of the Kent County Council from 1946 to 1949. He retained West Leeds for Labour at a by-election in July, 1949, with a reduced majority of 4,109.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leigh

CANDIDATE : Boardman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Boardman was for nine years an official of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Trades. At the time of his election in 1945 he was a member of the executive committee of the Sale Labour Party and the Altrincham Divisional Labour Party. He is a former member of Derby Town Council, and has been chairman of the Derby Labour Party. He has been chairman of Derby Labour College and chairman of the Derby Co-operative Society’s Joint Advisory Committee. In the last Parliament he was Parliamentary private secretary to the Minister of Labour.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Liverpool Garston

CANDIDATE : Blease

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. L. Blease is a well-known Liverpool barrister who recently retired from a law professorship at Liverpool University to which he was appointed in 1919. He was public orator at the University for 1931. Educated at Shrewsbury and Liverpool University, he was called to the Bar in 1906.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Liverpool West Derby

CANDIDATE : Fyfe

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, K.C., sat for this division from 1935. He was born in 1900 and educated at Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and Balliol College, Oxford. During the 1914-18 war he served with the Scots Guards. He took silk in 1934 and later was appointed Recorder of Oldham and became a member of the General Council of the Bar. In 1942 he was appointed Solicitor-General and became Attorney-General in the ” caretaker ” Government in 1945. He went to the Nuremberg trials as deputy chairman of the British War Crimes Executive and there made an international reputation as cross-examiner of the Nazi criminals. In 1947 he received the honorary degree of LL.D. from Liverpool University.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Clayton

CANDIDATE : Walls

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. H. Walls, a Stockport solicitor, was born in 1892 at Moston. Articled in Birmingham, he won the medal of the Law Society and was admitted as a solicitor. In 1942 he was president of Stockport Law Society. For 17 years he has been a member of the Hazel Grove and Bramhall District Council, and was chairman in 1943. He is vice-president of the Knutsford Divisional Liberal Association.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Manchester Wythenshawe

CANDIDATE : Noble

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. E. Noble, a chartered accountant, joined the Liberal Party last year. Born in 1911, he was secretary to a cotton mill company before joining the army. He served with the Intelligence Corps and the R.A.S.C, and spent three years in India. He is a merchant converter of cotton textiles.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Nelson and Colne

CANDIDATE : Silverman

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. Sydney Silverman, who is in his early fifties, has represented the constituency since 1935. He is a native of Liverpool, and a solicitor. He won his way to the unive?sity by scholarships, and is a B.A. and LL.B. Mr. Silverman has played a prominent role in the Jewish cause, and was a contributor to many of the debates on the future of Palestine in the last Parliament.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Northampton

CANDIDATE : Agnew

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. R. L. Agnew made the Army his career, and from Rugby went to Sandhurst. He was commissioned in the 15th Hussars in 1919 and served with them until 1936. In the second world war he became second in command of his old regiment, subsequently commanded The East Riding (Yorks) Yeomanry and then transferred to the command of the 146th Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, serving throughout the Burma campaign. His grandfather and uncle, both Liberals, sat in the?House of Commons.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Nottingham North West

CANDIDATE : West

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. A. West a native of Nottingham, is a member of the Amalgamated Engineering Union. During the war he was employed as an aircraft fitter, and later served three years with the Fleet Air Arm.

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CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

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The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Oxford

CANDIDATE : Tweddle

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. D. Tweddle, aged 39, went from Ayles-bury Grammar School to work in a bank. Commissioned in the R.A.F. during the war, he served in India, Burma, and Malaya, returning home in 1946 as a wing commander. He is the South-East England regional organizer of the United Nations Association.

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